Film

The film research cluster encompasses a range of interests regarding a variety of filmic practices, diversely identified formally, stylistically, historically and/or with respect to national or trans-national structures and boundaries.

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Research undertaken and in process includes work on British and European cinema, classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, African and Third Cinema, animation, film genre, film authorship, the intersection of film, politics and culture and the larger theorisation and critical reception of the filmic medium. In addition to individual and collaborative work published and presented at conferences and other symposia, members of the cluster have organised highly successful international conferences at the University of Winchester " 'Violent Film' (2006) and Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts' (2009).

Consonant with the scope of the areas and topics traversed by the film research cluster, work is informed by a number of critical and theoretical approaches, methodologies and philosophies. Unifying the cluster's work, however, is a concern mutually with close textual consideration and the situation of texts, and textual strategies, within their determining material contexts.